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I didn't see any other topics like this one, if there is let me know. I would say that any story spoilers should be marked just in case but that characters are fair game since there aren't really surprise joins.
Anyway, I'm on run #4, finally on the church one. I've decided to base my team entirely around memes. currently on ch7. The team plan and their final classes:
1. Byleth - Bishop
2. Seteth - Hero
3. Flayn - Fortress Knight
4. Raphael - Assassin
5. Lorenz - Noble
6. Leonie - Gremory
7. Bernadetta - Dancer
8. Marianne - Warrior
9. Caspar - Dark Knight
10. Felix - Sniper
Successes so far: Marianne has easily been MVP. Fun fact that's easy to overlook, her "mystery crest" effect is the same as crest of Fraldarius so she low key puts in work with gauntlets. Lorenz has had oddly good growths. Felix has been great but he's the actual good unit in a class that makes sense for him so that's be to expected.
Challenges going forward: This team has no flying and one mount, and everyone sucks at magic. Caspar keeps gaining strength as a mage, Raphael refuses to gain speed as a thief, and it's killing me. I shudder to think of my team with so many 4 move characters, and I'm not using stride because support gambits are cheating. Lorenz is literally going to have HP +5 and random prowessesand that's it.
But this run has been fun and even somewhat challenging. How is your run going?

Hello, I wanted to go over a topic of discussion while doing a playthrough of FE8. The topic of discussion is the word, Casual, and the implications and applications that can come from it. It seems to me that the immediate ideas that come up when this word is used is to conjure feelings of defamation and negativity. More or less used as an insult but there are other ways to use it that are neutral or positive such as the phrase "Casual LTC" or simply "Casual playthrough. In Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones especially it seems to be the former as it's generally regarded as the easiest or one of the easier of all the games. However, what do you think of the word and how you you apply and use it. Playthrough link:

I dropped Fates a few weeks before Sun and Moon came out, and I think I kinda... restricted myself with the Luna!BR and Hard!CQ PMUs, which made them really hard to get back into. I'll not delve further into my reasons why I'm stopping them since this is too long already. For now, I'd like to do a Hard mode Conquest PMU. I'm choosing to play Casual because this is for fun, and I wanna ease myself back into Fates. Also, rules:
Avatar is fully customizable (Can be by one or multiple people).
2 picks per person.
Children need 1 parent picked.
I won't stop you from giving me garbage units, but I do ask for mercy.
No Gunter. I know I said I'm fine with garbage, but Gunter is worse than garbage.
I may ban the Yato, Brynhildr and Siegfried for myself. Depends on what units I get.
Only 1 of each DLC class, and all are allowed.
Please don't give me the same unit/class combos as on my old CQ PMU, which are in the spoiler below. There are a good amount removed as I never recruited or reclassed them, so I see no need to exclude them from this.
Unit list:
Blacksmith!M!Avatar (S-Sophie)
Maid!Charlotte
Ike!Keaton
Malig Knight!Niles (S-Camilla or Beruka, depends on other choices)
Master Ninja!Nyx (S-Kaze)
Great Knight!Kaze (A+-Silas)
Dark Knight!Nyx!Midori
Swordmaster!Leo (A+-Odin)
Dread Fighter!Selena
Adventurer!Peri (S-Niles)
Wyvern Lord!Xander
Bow Knight!Azura (S-Laslow)
Berserker!Odin (S-Charlotte)
Maid!Elise
Marther (Lodestar!Arthur)
Kinshi Knight!Selena!Sophie
Thank you, and have a nice day.

So I've already recorded all of me playing FE4's prologue, and I'm going to upload each part daily. I also have plenty of co-commentators.
With that, here's Part 0:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3-CrY2aaI

I'm curious to know how everyone will play their game on their very first run, so feel free to share your choice and reasons. For me it would be: Hoshido Hard/Classic No Reset Little to no grinding (but I will be messing around with Hoshido My Castle). I always play a new Fire Emblem game this way because it reminds me of playing the series for the very first time as a kid and I wanna see how much I've improved as an Fire Emblem player in general by thinking of strategies on the fly and dealing with the consequences of having a character die without making the game unbeatable (i.e Fredrick dying in lunatic during the first few chapters of Awakening). But if Orochi, Orobo or Pieri die... so help me god I will jump out of a freaking window. EDIT: Now Hoshido or Nohr is an option in the poll.

So I just attempted to complete the prologue and I got rekt like 5 times. The RNG goddess is cruel and unforgiving, getting a crit on Krom AND Frederick.
MU:
Female, +Def -Luck
Yeah, I know, give Frederick the sword and keep Liz out of range.

Hey-lo. This is my first playlog so I'm going to be learning what works and what doesn't as I go. This isn't however, my first playthrough of FE4. It's actually my second so it isn't much better. Also expect terrible jokes.
I will try to keep the language PG-13.
My updates will be one castle per update and this will only be updated on weekends. I will be arena abusing because why not? Tell me if you want me to post before and after stats.
The pairings for this run are...
LevinLewyn/Tiltyu(<3Levin better treat her right...)
Azel/Sylvia
Beowulf/Adean
Lex/Briggid
Jamke/Fury
Finn/Raquesis
Holyn/Ayra
Other than that, I believe we are good. With out further delay...
[spoiler=Prologue: Part 1]
It begins...
Oh hey. A timeline. *skips*
The land.
The first character we see looks like a fat and old Italian.... I love this game.
Now we have a shaved Jesus and his disciples.
My father-in-law and that guy.
The asshole and the blonde. What kind of high school reunion is this?
Ah Yied Dessert. Good times...
That's wise.
#TrustNOne
You're kidding right?
Finally some booty, It was a sausage fest a minute ago.
Too bad you can only be paired with Deidre. Also, how the hell do barbarians sneak across a border?
"It's all right Midayle. I didn't expect much else out of you all."
...Did you just give me permission to get you killed?
Lol. "Damn straight." Guess you're cool.
....Despite my pent up aggression from your mediocre performance last playthrough, I believe in second chances. Just don't give me an opening to-
God knows you couldn't even do that right.
'Cuz you ugly.
Actually yeah good idea. Maybe our enemies will just pass out when they see you.
Not gonna lie. I thought that said "Junes" for a minute there.
The first turn.
The first attack.
Come block their axes with your face.
*myself.
Thank you so much. Saved me the trouble of benching him.
...I'm pretty sure you'd break her honestly.
Damn hoar.
In reality, this walk should take days.
I thought only food made people's mouths wat-...Oh...
No Church In The Wild dear.
Look. Somebody besides Sigurd dodging.
Lex~~~ And Trashzel. If I didn't need a mage, you'd be dead.
All right so your reservations in hell have already been made. Just tell me when you're ready to go.
Even though I'm not using you full time, you are doing a good job.
Pretty sure this is the only one he dodged so far.
Healer get.
...Let's see... We've used swords, lances... I got it! Guess why they call it a Heal Staff~?
FINN~~~~!!!!~~!!~~!~!!~~!~!~!~
It's not even fair at this point.
Hey Arden. Look on the bright side. You can't get any uglier.
And my bias begins.
....So you have a healing arm? Legit.
Weakening him because why not.
Not that he really needed it but I'd rather not have an arrow through my healer,
*sigh* Nicely done I suppose. For trash.
You would dare to attack Lex? And actually hit?
You can do no wrong Finn. Duck just doesn't know what he's talking about.
So we jumping people now huh?
If you die, I wouldn't reset. Just letting you know.
Lex da best.
The bromance here is coming on way too strong.
...
I'm pretty sure you were talking. With your bodies.
....You aren't helping your case here.
Honestly I just feel bad at this point. It's like kicking puppies.
He got Stength, Yay.
Ooh Kill 'Em
Scrub/10
...See above.
The assault.
Why do they even bother?
More Finn kicking ass.
Stacking dat paper... coins...
Heal your lover.
'Bout time they started killing this guy. The village is almost gone.
There. Now you've succeeded at something in life besides fucking 14(?) year old sluts
Lord forbid you die on your own and make me happy.
...QUAN TOO STRONK. If only he had Pursuit.
I told you I have massive bias. Just wait till we get a certain Thunder Mage though.
I want to promote Finn and Ethlyn before they leave. I've done it before and plan to do it again. #PersonalGoals
Da boss.
More dinero for Finn and a Speed Ring.
Brother and sister love that isn't incest. Beautiful
B-But Quan enjoys her Healing Staff...
Says the barbarians who are obviously ninja that somehow crossed the border undetected.
Lol. No sir.
The fact that yo- Actually in the words of Masamune Date, "You never had a chance!" But no boss kill for Sigurd.
Can we send him back in a coffin? Please?
Burn him to the stake
"Aww Azel. You're a burden to all of us. Not just him."
#YOLO
Screw the Weapon Triangle.
LEX. That is all.
And our forces are just that much more badass because you're here.
...Remember what I said earlier about, "Screw the Weapon Triangle"? This is two misses later.
Don't fuck with Finn.
Healing and setting up for next time
Yes.
"And there's also a bird in the sky. Can we go now?"
Couldn't we just leave him?
Forgot what I was gonna say here but I know it was good.
And that's a wrap.
Next update will come possibly today. Not sure.